Help us design the future of learning! 🖌️
We're hiring a product designer to shape how AI transforms learning for everyone
Parsnip is looking for a product designer who will own the next phase
of our AI learning platform, and we need your help in our search! 🙏
We started Parsnip with the goal of teaching anyone in the world how to cook 🧑🍳. And despite the inevitable ups and downs that accompany any startup, we’ve gotten pretty far: >100k downloads, 4.9 ⭐️ on the App Store, and many rave reviews.
But, what we hadn’t bargained for on our journey was a far bigger, even more interesting challenge... because in order to do this properly, to teach different learners different skills at different times, it turns out we’d have to first solve, and at scale, the problem of personalized learning 🧑🎓 — an open problem that has stubbornly persisted in edtech for decades. Fortunately for us, the timing of generative AI as an enabling technology was impeccable.
Like any good yak shave1, we’ve followed this process to its logical conclusion, and have now built a fully fledged AI-powered, human-in-the-loop pedagogy system, which pushes the boundaries of AI, data visualization, and interaction design to create maps of knowledge 🗺️ and a “GPS” that can bring learners anywhere they want to go.
This approach can be applied to many more topics than just cooking. In the future, you might use it for things like turning a book into an interactive course, onboarding new users to software you’re distributing, or even building other personalized learning apps similar to Parsnip.
Right now, we’re looking for a very special designer to help us bring this AI system into its next chapter. The ideal candidate is an M-shaped generalist who’s analytical enough to grok the AI pipelines under the hood, but also fluent enough in UX to craft a user experience that makes all that complex machinery accessible to teachers and educators. And, most importantly, we hope to find someone who believes in shaping the future of learning, starting with how we eat, and to realize our mission of building AI that empowers people to become the best versions of themselves.
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Our future teammate will have a lot to look forward to behind the scenes. One sneak peek: off-the-shelf model training tools didn’t do what we needed, so we rolled our own. Our “AI Kitchen” incorporates versioned models, datasets and an evaluation framework, and graph-based model flows. More about how we cook up new models in a future post 🤗.
Finally, Parsnip owes a special shout-out to Jen, who has been instrumental to designing this learning system and has taken it incredibly far from where we started. We’ll miss your brilliance and insights, and wish you the very best in what’s to come.
While yak shaves are often distractions, some have been legendary. Donald Knuth, the “Patron Saint of Yak Shaves”, created TeX because he didn’t like the options available to typeset his (also legendary) book. Linus Torvalds developed the first version of Git in 10 days because the Linux kernel code needed new version control software. We’ll probably need a little more time than that to figure out personalized learning 😅.